Kamoa Copper S.A. is a joint venture between Ivanhoe Mines, Zijin Mining Group, and the Government of the Democratic Republic ...

The DRC seeks to offer key minerals to the U.S., but rebel forces and China largely control access to these vital rare earth resources, which are said to be worth trillions of dollars.

an associate professor in international development at Belgium’s University of Antwerp whose research focuses on artisanal and small-scale mining in the eastern DRC. That part of the country is ...

The 2022 Mining Act for the first time recognized artisan miners as key players in the mining sector in Uganda. Artisanal and ...

The DRC had forced six Chinese firms to stop ... of the Minerals and Mining Act 2006 which clearly reserves small-scale mining to only Ghanaians,” Nathaniel Ocquaye of the London School of ...

Rebel group M23 levies taxes on mining in the DRC. It generates income of about $800 000 in revenue ... Yet this represents only a small fraction of its tax revenues from trade, as the armed group ...

Mining them can "help fund armed conflict". Coltan mining in the DRC has also been linked to "large-scale environmental degradation, human rights abuses, violence and death", said Oluwole Ojewale ...